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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1948
Page
3
Logan City Council tabled and gave first reading to an ordinance creating a $60 annual license fee per pinball and skeeball machine. Pro-rated fees apply for licenses after January 1 with annual expiration December 31. Fines of $50 to $100 and possible license revocation are provided.
Logan residents can have items like furniture dishes shoes and books collected Friday by Goodwill Industries of Columbus. Dr Charles Graham former Logan Methodist pastor and Goodwill founder explains the nonprofit uses funds as wages to assist handicapped workers and rehabilitate them toward employment.
A series of social visits and weekend stays are reported. Donald Skiver and Nelson Skiver of Logan hosted relatives. Sam Farley attended a grandson’s birthday in Zanesville. Harvey Angle visited Columbus. O D Johnson and Paul Angle traveled between Logan and Columbus. multiple households hosted or visited friends in Laurel Run Greens Run Wellston Laurelville and other locales. the note ends with a band boosters spring carnival at the Community Hall Tuesday evening.
Mrs Clarence Blosser won first place and Mrs Harry Bell took second in a bridge event hosted by Mrs Logan and Mrs Henry Dague. The Tuesday Bridge Club gathering was at her North Spring Street home with a seven o'clock dinner.
Logan plans school immunizations for diphtheria and smallpox for children entering city schools next September. Health Commissioner Dr. H G Southard says the program, required by the Board of Education since 1946, will be third run. Sessions are West School May 18 9:30 am, Central School May 20 1 pm, East School May 27 9:30 am.
Olive D. Frasch 70 lifelong Logan resident died Wednesday at 325 West Main Street after months of illness. Survived by husband George four daughters Collins Kocheran Mary and Marie Frasch of Logan and Mary Frasch of Columbus and a Toledo son Fred. Funeral Saturday 11 a m Leonard funeral home with Rev Clinton Swengel. Interment Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until services.
Mothers Day observance at Spencer Ridge Church featured a program and carnations for the oldest and youngest mother and the mother of the largest family. Reverend Leona Thompson and other mothers received carnations for Sunday school help. Local visitors included Ona Dew and the Phelps family along with Dew relatives from Newark and Fostoria. Bake sale planned by Haydenville WSCS for May 14 at 11 a.m. at the company store.
Emma Craven and Hester Hayes nearly missed a New York bound train for the Congressional Secretaries Club trip. They rode in a Washington Times Herald delivery truck's cargo area with papers, narrowly escaping a police intervention and catching the train for a weekend in New York.
Logan mayor Roger W. Friend fined three motorists after guilty pleas to traffic violations. William D. Sharp of Sugar Grove paid 100 dollars and costs for drunken driving. William D. Calland of Columbus and Clifford Wilson of Murray City each paid five dollars and costs for speeding. Calland was arrested by state highway patrol and Wilson was cited by city police.
May 4 diary fragment records Mrs. Harvey Angle visiting her aunt Mrs. Nettie Guess in Nelsonville and mentions Mrs. Annabelle Lehman.
Robert Kerns of Haydenville was fined 19 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to reckless operation following a Monday night accident on Route 33 that damaged the Campbell residence porch and lightly injured Kerns and his brother Charles. Deputy Waldron arrested him and Magistrate Whitehart arraigned him.
The LOGAN in our edition hosts the Mills Brothers Circus for a one day event on June 21 at the fairgrounds under the local VFW post led by Commander Vaughn Collins. The post meets in Mac cabee Hall and will join Memorial Day ceremonies May 30 in Murray City and May 31 in Adelphi.
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